Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his main ally were the front-runners Saturday after early counting of votes cast in Tehran in elections to Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts, AFP reports.
Rouhani and Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, himself a former president, held second and first place respectively in the capital for the 88-member committee of clerics that appoints the country's supreme leader, according to the news agency.